A new method of converting squalene, which is produced by microalgae, to gasoline or jet fuel, has been developed by the research group of Professor Keiichi Tomishige and Dr. Yoshinao Nakagawa from Tohoku University's Department of Applied Chemistry, and Dr. Hideo Watanabe from the University of Tsukuba.
The figures are impressive: from 15 to 55 employees in just over 1.5 years, a brand-new 4’500 square meter pilot production plant in Niederhasli in the outskirts of Zurich with a production capacity of 15 MW (megawatts) in installed solar energy and another financing round of CHF 10 million.
Iberdrola Renewables today announced a 25-year contract to supply Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc. (Tri-State) – a wholesale electric power supplier owned by 44 electric cooperatives and public power districts across Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico and Wyoming – with renewable energy from the planned Twin Buttes II Wind Project.
San Antonio-based OCI Solar Power LLC is announcing the start of construction on the 110-megawatt (MW) Alamo 6 solar plant located in Pecos County, Texas. Once constructed, this will be the largest solar plant in Texas and one of the largest dual-axis solar projects in the world.
At a ceremony held at the Intersolar Europe trade show in Munich, Germany, Dr. Lutz Henckels, CEO of HiQ Solar received the Award for solar innovation for the TrueString 480V. "HiQ Solar's device is a worthy winner of the Intersolar Award 2015," said the judging panel.
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today announced that it has teamed with Community Energy, Inc. to support the construction and operation of an 80 megawatt (MW) solar farm in Accomack County, Virginia, called Amazon Solar Farm US East. This new solar farm is expected to start generating approximately 170,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of solar power annually as early as October 2016 – or the equivalent of that used by approximately 15,000 US homes1 in a year.
The world´s new solar power leader, Hanwha Q CELLS, has put the 8.1MW "Tower Hill" solar farm into operation in South Gloucestershire, in the Southwest of England. Hanwha Q CELLS, owner of the project rights for the Tower Hill farm, managed the EPC (Engineering, Procurement, Construction) and will be responsible for O&M (Operations & Maintenance).
InterGen and IEnova today announced that the Energía Sierra Juárez wind project began commercial operations in Tecate, Baja California, Mexico. InterGen has a 50 percent interest in the project with Infraestructura Energética Nova, S.A.B. de C.V. “IEnova.” Energía Sierra Juárez is the first cross-border wind generation project between Mexico and the U.S.
India's first solar-powered renewable fuelling station, supplied by Air Products, was inaugurated recently at an event with chief guest Shri Piyush Goyal, Union Minister for Power, Coal, and New and Renewable Energy, in conjunction with Shri Upendra Tripathy, Secretary, Minister of New and Renewable Energy.
AES Distributed Energy, a subsidiary of The AES Corporation, today announced the commissioning of a 4 megawatt (MW) solar PV project located in the town of Dublin, in the County of Laurens, Georgia. This system is the first of two solar PV projects being developed by AES Distributed Energy and its partners, collectively expected to supply 20 MW to the Georgia Power utility grid. The second, 16 MW project, is under development and is expected to be operational in the first half of 2016.
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